NASA’s space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members on board.

NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and currently serves as its CEO, chief technology officer, and chief designer. Despite leading several other companies, Musk remains intensely involved in the ...

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space ...

The U.S. State Department has recalled its top diplomat in Colombia for urgent consultations. The move follows comments from ...

Launched last Monday (23) by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, a capsule containing various human remains suffered a failure and lost ...

Some were lost during missions, others deliberately dumped, all of them now part of the growing problem of space debris.